Gui that support UCI engines (like stockfish) on mac

[h1a8]

I was thinking about buying a m2 MacBook pro this year.
I definitely would like to run stockfish for analysis occasionally and some engine vs engine matches.

What are my best options (to use m2 at full potential)?

Fritz ever decide to support Macbook pro (M chip series)?

[Modern Times]

Probably Banksia is the best choice (free). Or perhaps look at Hiarcs Chess Explorer if their Mac version runs nicely on M2.

[h1a8]

Probably Banksia is the best choice (free). Or perhaps look at Hiarcs Chess Explorer if their Mac version runs nicely on M2.

So with Hiarcs I can download stockfish UCI from website and install it on macbook (Intel version)?

[Dariusz]

Probably Banksia is the best choice (free). Or perhaps look at Hiarcs Chess Explorer if their Mac version runs nicely on M2.

So with Hiarcs I can download stockfish UCI from website and install it on macbook (Intel version)?

Yes, You can download yourself Stockifish from the official site and use it in Hiarcs Chess Explorer or Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro without any problems.

[Dariusz]

I was thinking about buying a m2 MacBook pro this year.
I definitely would like to run stockfish for analysis occasionally and some engine vs engine matches.

What are my best options (to use m2 at full potential)?

Fritz ever decide to support Macbook pro (M chip series)?

MacBook Pro is a good choice for chess.
I am a Mac user with the M1 processor.

I invite you to read the article on my site about Mac chess software.
https://www.chessengeria.com/post/tools ... rkshop-mac

In my opinion, it is unlikely that ChessBase (developer of the Fritz program) will decide to support Mac's in the near future.

If you care to use Windows software (such as Fritz) on a Mac, you can do so quite comfortably. Details in the article: https://www.chessengeria.com/post/mac-a ... -one-house

[Magnum]

I was thinking about buying a m2 MacBook pro this year.
I definitely would like to run stockfish for analysis occasionally and some engine vs engine matches.

What are my best options (to use m2 at full potential)?

Fritz ever decide to support Macbook pro (M chip series)?

I can tell you that the M1 MAX is a big fun.
BanksiaGUI is the best.
Of course Stockfish can be used.
LC0 can be used too
You can do the infinite analysis or the much better ECA.
Engine vs engine matches, tournaments are great with lots of informations.
To run testsuites is also possible.
It's very simple to download all 3 to 7 syzygy endgame tablebases.
I've tested "Battle vs Chess", the newest Fritz GUI, newest ChessBase GUI, newest ChessOK Aquarium GUI and other GUIs too and all works fine.
Parallels Desktop with Windows 11 for ARM is great.
CrossOver is great too.
Rosetta 2 is amazing.
Newest macOS Ventura
Other Apple apps but not macOS apps works fine too.
Linux works too.

[hgm]

XBoard is available for Mac. There even is a special OSX app bundle for it.

[Werewolf]

Probably Banksia is the best choice (free). Or perhaps look at Hiarcs Chess Explorer if their Mac version runs nicely on M2.

So with Hiarcs I can download stockfish UCI from website and install it on macbook (Intel version)?

Yes, You can download yourself Stockifish from the official site and use it in Hiarcs Chess Explorer or Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro without any problems.

Really? He's buying an M2 Mac, doesn't he need to compile it himself with Homebrew?

[Hai]

BanksiaGUI

[Hai]

Probably Banksia is the best choice (free). Or perhaps look at Hiarcs Chess Explorer if their Mac version runs nicely on M2.

So with Hiarcs I can download stockfish UCI from website and install it on macbook (Intel version)?

Yes, You can download yourself Stockifish from the official site and use it in Hiarcs Chess Explorer or Hiarcs Chess Explorer Pro without any problems.

Really? He's buying an M2 Mac, doesn't he need to compile it himself with Homebrew?

He can use Homebrew or much better compile himself - much faster Stockfish.

Compile himself means:
1. Click on Stockfish Code and download https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish

2.Open Finder, click on downloads and push it from downloads to your user name (the house image).

3. Open Terminal and copy and paste:
cd /Users/my/Stockfish-master/src
(my is your user name)
click enter

then

make -j profile-build COMP=clang ARCH=apple-silicon
click enter

then

./stockfish compiler
click enter

then

make strip
click enter

4. Push Stockfish into BanksiaGUI.

I think he can do it within 10 seconds.